Etruscan Hippocamp in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, October 2009

Statuette of hippocamp (mythical creature)
Italic, Etruscan, Archaic Period, about 520–500 B.C.

Dimensions: Height x depth: 56 x 65 cm (22 1/16 x 25 9/16 in.)

Medium or Technique: Nenfro

Classification: Sculpture

Catalogue Raisonné: Sculpture in Stone (MFA), no. 391; Sculpture in Stone and Bronze (MFA), p. 116 (additional published references).

Accession Number: 62.793

The creature has a double mane, side fins, and a fin behind the lower part of his body. Set on his rectangular plinth, he was meant to be seen from his right side. Much of the head, the protruding forelegs, and the tail are missing. The plinth and the surfaces of the body have been damaged, the former more than the latter.

Text from: www.mfa.org/collections/object/statuette-of-hippocamp-myt...